Quotes About Existence

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Life is legalized, consecrated absurdity.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities

Not to haw been born, merely musing on that-what happiness, what freedom, what space!

So long as there is a single god standing, man's task is not done.

Not to have been born, merely musing on that—what happiness, what freedom, what space!

Death reaches so far, requires so much room, that I no longer know where to die.

To suffer: sole modality of acquiring the sensation of existence; to exist: unique means of safeguarding our destruction.

A strange island, the ghetto, a tiny universe without roots, to the measure of its inhabitants, as remote from the life of the soil as angels or ghosts.

Without God, everything is nothingness; and God? Supreme nothingness.

everything leads us to assume that man is the last caprice nature has allowed herself.

But we are fundamentally, biologically unsuited to "understand.

Once my body gives me the slip, how, I wonder, with such carrion on my hands, will I combat the capitulation of my organs?

Ofiara muzyczna, Sztuka fugi, Wariacje Goldbergowskie: w muzyce, tak jak w filozofii i we wszystkim, lubiÄ™ to, co sprawia ból przez uporczywo??, nawracanie, przez nieskoÅ"czony powrót, który dotyka najdalszych gÅ'Ä™bi bytu i wywoÅ'uje ledwo mo?liwÄ… do zniesienia przyjemno??.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?

When you know quite absolutely that everything is unreal, you then cannot see why you should take the trouble to prove it.

Nobody is comforted in his sufferings by the thought we are all mortals, nor does anybody who suffers really find comfort in the past or present suffering of others.

To exist is to profit by our share of unreality, to be quickened by each contact with the void that is within.

Why do men insist on achieving something? Would it not be better if they stood still under the sun in calm and silent immobility? What is there to accomplish? Why so much effort and ambition? Man has forgotten the meaning of silence.

knows it is necessary, knows that we cannot do without anxiety once we have known it.

Todo lo que no tiende a la pureza de la nada está embebido de una feroz vulgaridad

feeling of being everything and the evidence of being nothing.' I happened across this phrase in my youth, and was overwhelmed by it. Everything I felt in those days, and everything I would feel from then on, was summed up in this extraordinary banal formula, the synthesis of expansion and failure, ecstasy and impasse. Most often it is not in a paradox but in a truism that a revelation appears.

If we did not bear the stigmata of life, how easy it would be to steal away, and how well everything would go by itself!